Tomasz Zaleskiewicz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 613389 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tomasz Zaleskiewicz |
| NOMBRES | Tomasz |
| APELLIDO | Zaleskiewicz |
| FIRMA | ZALESKIEWICZ T |
| AFILIACIONES | Uniwersytet SWPS |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4232-6151 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Trust under watch
Trust and control are often portrayed as opposing forces in a hydraulic relationship. Across six preregistered experiments (total N = 4086) conducted in Australia, South Africa, the UK, and the US, we demonstrate that this relationship is context-dependent rather than universal. We examined how verification monitoring—a subtle form of control—affects trust in communal sharing (CS) versus market pricing (MP) relationships. Participants found monit…
Mental imagery shapes emotions in people's decisions related to risk taking
This research investigates the specific effects of mental imagery on people's emotional responses and risk-taking decisions. We present findings across four studies, including three experiments, that highlight emotions as a mediator between the valence of mental images related to risk and subsequent risk-taking propensity. Our research identifies two key factors that moderate this relationship: the category of cognitive process (analytical thinki…
Warmth and Competence in Human-AI Agent Interactions
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly integrate into daily life, understanding how people perceive AI agents in trust-related interactions is critical for fostering effective human-AI collaboration. Drawing on social cognition theory, this research examines the fundamental dimensions of warmth and competence in shaping impressions and trust towards AI agents compared to humans. Across two studies using trust-related vignettes,…
Social assistance or agency? Attachment Styles Moderate the Impact of Control Threat on Social Relationship Preferences
Building upon Gasiorowska and Zaleskiewicz's (2021, 2023), we explored how a control threat and attachment style influence social relationship preferences. This experiment aimed to investigate how experiencing a control threat affects individuals with secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment patterns when they can choose between seeking assistance from the market, asking a close person for help, or coping with the situation alone. Participants wi…
Imagining risk taking
The aim of the present research was to investigate the involvement of mental imagery in people's choices under risk. We tested the general idea that decision makers can use visual mental images (visual mental simulations) to pre‐experience how rewarding or threatening future outcomes of risky behavior will be and try out the potential consequences of their risky activities. The paper reports the results of three preregistered studies (including o…
Attachment orientations moderate people's preferences for market versus communal relationships under a control threat
In two studies, we examined the effects of a control threat and attachment orientation on people's preferences for market relationships. In Study 1, experiencing a control threat increased the willingness to seek practical support in the market rather than ask a close person for help among participants with higher attachment anxiety. In a well-powered preregistered Study 2, we replicated these results and demonstrated that they also hold for situ…
Conceptual replication study of fifteen JDM effects
We conducted pre-registered replications of 15 effects in the field of judgment and decision making (JDM). We aimed to test the generalizability of different classical and modern JDM effects, including, among others: less-is- better, anchoring, and framing to different languages, cultures, or current situations (COVID-19 pandemic). Replicated studies were selected and conducted by undergraduate psychology students enrolled in a decision-making co…
Market mindset reduces endorsement of individualizing moral foundations, but not in liberals
People with a market mindset attend to ratios and rates, and allocate rewards adequately to costs but are less sensitive to feelings. In this project, we demonstrate that activating a market mindset also affects people’s acceptance of free-market principles and their endorsement of individualizing moral dimensions—care/harm and fairness/cheating. Experiment 1 documented that a market mindset positively impacted people’s endorsement of fair market…
Consistency in probability processing as a function of affective context and numeracy
Processing information about probabilities is an integral part of decision making under risk. Even when objective probabilities are explicitly provided, people tend to distort them, which is reflected by an inverted S‐shaped probability weighting function. Such distortions depend on different factors such as numeracy and affect. The present study contributes to the understanding of how people use probabilities in risky decision making by introduc…
Market mindset impacts moral decisions
We show that exposure to market relationships increases people’s tendency to make utilitarian moral choices by means of proportional thinking—the definitional feature of the market mindset. In Experiment 1, participants primed with market relationships made more utilitarian choices in both the trolley and the footbridge dilemmas. In Experiment 2, priming market mindset led to more utilitarian moral choices and to greater focus on the proportion o…
Social class and interpersonal trust
The present research investigated the effects of social class on interpersonal trust. In a series of experiments, we showed how the contextualist socio‐cognitive tendencies of the lower class and the solipsistic tendencies of the upper class were reflected in their trusting attitudes and behaviors. In Study 1 ( N = 491), upper class individuals expressed the same levels of trust towards all partners, while lower class individuals adjusted their t…
Trading in search of structure
Rooting our model in the compensatory control theory, we propose that one reason behind the prevalence of market relationships in modern society is that the fundamental need for orderliness makes them psychologically appealing because of the structure they provide. The initial study confirmed that market relationships are perceived as more structured than communal relationships. In 13 experiments (including 2 preregistered ones), we examined the …
Money as an existential anxiety buffer
Implicit attitudes toward risk
Methods that are typically used to examine individual differences in risk attitudes (e.g. lotteries, dilemmas, questionnaires) require participants to explicitly declare their willingness to take risk. Therefore, they may be biased by the need for self-presentation or situational characteristics such as time pressure and cognitive constraints that lead to more spontaneous and automatic processing of risk-related information. The aim of this study…
The Scrooge effect revisited
Money and the fear of death
The strength of emotions in moral judgment and decision-making under risk
The strength of emotions in moral judgment and decision-making under risk The focus of this paper is the role of emotions in judgments and choices associated with moral issues. Study 1 shows that depending on the strength of emotions when making a moral decision, people become sensitive to the severity and the probability of harm that their decisions can bring to others. A possible interpretation is that depending on the strength of emotions, peo…
Would you do something for me? The effects of money activation on social preferences and social behavior in young children
Gender differences in allocation choices made by children aged 5 to 6
Gender differences in allocation choices made by children aged 5 to 6 The main aim of this article is to supplement gaps in current knowledge concerning the development of competences related to goods allocation choices. We conducted a study in which 158 children aged 5 to 6 made choices concerning allocations of goods between themselves and the other, anonymous child. The crucial findings point to boys as more selfish in their choices than girls…
Financial forecasts during the crisis
Money and the fear of death
The Scrooge effect revisited
Money as an existential anxiety buffer
Would you do something for me? The effects of money activation on social preferences and social behavior in young children
Trading in search of structure
Rooting our model in the compensatory control theory, we propose that one reason behind the prevalence of market relationships in modern society is that the fundamental need for orderliness makes them psychologically appealing because of the structure they provide. The initial study confirmed that market relationships are perceived as more structured than communal relationships. In 13 experiments (including 2 preregistered ones), we examined the …
Market mindset impacts moral decisions
We show that exposure to market relationships increases people’s tendency to make utilitarian moral choices by means of proportional thinking—the definitional feature of the market mindset. In Experiment 1, participants primed with market relationships made more utilitarian choices in both the trolley and the footbridge dilemmas. In Experiment 2, priming market mindset led to more utilitarian moral choices and to greater focus on the proportion o…
Social class and interpersonal trust
The present research investigated the effects of social class on interpersonal trust. In a series of experiments, we showed how the contextualist socio‐cognitive tendencies of the lower class and the solipsistic tendencies of the upper class were reflected in their trusting attitudes and behaviors. In Study 1 ( N = 491), upper class individuals expressed the same levels of trust towards all partners, while lower class individuals adjusted their t…
Implicit attitudes toward risk
Methods that are typically used to examine individual differences in risk attitudes (e.g. lotteries, dilemmas, questionnaires) require participants to explicitly declare their willingness to take risk. Therefore, they may be biased by the need for self-presentation or situational characteristics such as time pressure and cognitive constraints that lead to more spontaneous and automatic processing of risk-related information. The aim of this study…
Attachment orientations moderate people's preferences for market versus communal relationships under a control threat
In two studies, we examined the effects of a control threat and attachment orientation on people's preferences for market relationships. In Study 1, experiencing a control threat increased the willingness to seek practical support in the market rather than ask a close person for help among participants with higher attachment anxiety. In a well-powered preregistered Study 2, we replicated these results and demonstrated that they also hold for situ…
Market mindset reduces endorsement of individualizing moral foundations, but not in liberals
People with a market mindset attend to ratios and rates, and allocate rewards adequately to costs but are less sensitive to feelings. In this project, we demonstrate that activating a market mindset also affects people’s acceptance of free-market principles and their endorsement of individualizing moral dimensions—care/harm and fairness/cheating. Experiment 1 documented that a market mindset positively impacted people’s endorsement of fair market…
Gender differences in allocation choices made by children aged 5 to 6
Gender differences in allocation choices made by children aged 5 to 6 The main aim of this article is to supplement gaps in current knowledge concerning the development of competences related to goods allocation choices. We conducted a study in which 158 children aged 5 to 6 made choices concerning allocations of goods between themselves and the other, anonymous child. The crucial findings point to boys as more selfish in their choices than girls…
Financial forecasts during the crisis
The strength of emotions in moral judgment and decision-making under risk
The strength of emotions in moral judgment and decision-making under risk The focus of this paper is the role of emotions in judgments and choices associated with moral issues. Study 1 shows that depending on the strength of emotions when making a moral decision, people become sensitive to the severity and the probability of harm that their decisions can bring to others. A possible interpretation is that depending on the strength of emotions, peo…
Would you do something for me? The effects of money activation on social preferences and social behavior in young children
Money and the fear of death
Implicit attitudes toward risk
Methods that are typically used to examine individual differences in risk attitudes (e.g. lotteries, dilemmas, questionnaires) require participants to explicitly declare their willingness to take risk. Therefore, they may be biased by the need for self-presentation or situational characteristics such as time pressure and cognitive constraints that lead to more spontaneous and automatic processing of risk-related information. The aim of this study…
The Scrooge effect revisited
Money as an existential anxiety buffer
Consistency in probability processing as a function of affective context and numeracy
Processing information about probabilities is an integral part of decision making under risk. Even when objective probabilities are explicitly provided, people tend to distort them, which is reflected by an inverted S‐shaped probability weighting function. Such distortions depend on different factors such as numeracy and affect. The present study contributes to the understanding of how people use probabilities in risky decision making by introduc…
Market mindset impacts moral decisions
We show that exposure to market relationships increases people’s tendency to make utilitarian moral choices by means of proportional thinking—the definitional feature of the market mindset. In Experiment 1, participants primed with market relationships made more utilitarian choices in both the trolley and the footbridge dilemmas. In Experiment 2, priming market mindset led to more utilitarian moral choices and to greater focus on the proportion o…
Social class and interpersonal trust
The present research investigated the effects of social class on interpersonal trust. In a series of experiments, we showed how the contextualist socio‐cognitive tendencies of the lower class and the solipsistic tendencies of the upper class were reflected in their trusting attitudes and behaviors. In Study 1 ( N = 491), upper class individuals expressed the same levels of trust towards all partners, while lower class individuals adjusted their t…
Trading in search of structure
Rooting our model in the compensatory control theory, we propose that one reason behind the prevalence of market relationships in modern society is that the fundamental need for orderliness makes them psychologically appealing because of the structure they provide. The initial study confirmed that market relationships are perceived as more structured than communal relationships. In 13 experiments (including 2 preregistered ones), we examined the …
Conceptual replication study of fifteen JDM effects
We conducted pre-registered replications of 15 effects in the field of judgment and decision making (JDM). We aimed to test the generalizability of different classical and modern JDM effects, including, among others: less-is- better, anchoring, and framing to different languages, cultures, or current situations (COVID-19 pandemic). Replicated studies were selected and conducted by undergraduate psychology students enrolled in a decision-making co…
Market mindset reduces endorsement of individualizing moral foundations, but not in liberals
People with a market mindset attend to ratios and rates, and allocate rewards adequately to costs but are less sensitive to feelings. In this project, we demonstrate that activating a market mindset also affects people’s acceptance of free-market principles and their endorsement of individualizing moral dimensions—care/harm and fairness/cheating. Experiment 1 documented that a market mindset positively impacted people’s endorsement of fair market…
Imagining risk taking
The aim of the present research was to investigate the involvement of mental imagery in people's choices under risk. We tested the general idea that decision makers can use visual mental images (visual mental simulations) to pre‐experience how rewarding or threatening future outcomes of risky behavior will be and try out the potential consequences of their risky activities. The paper reports the results of three preregistered studies (including o…
Attachment orientations moderate people's preferences for market versus communal relationships under a control threat
In two studies, we examined the effects of a control threat and attachment orientation on people's preferences for market relationships. In Study 1, experiencing a control threat increased the willingness to seek practical support in the market rather than ask a close person for help among participants with higher attachment anxiety. In a well-powered preregistered Study 2, we replicated these results and demonstrated that they also hold for situ…
Social assistance or agency? Attachment Styles Moderate the Impact of Control Threat on Social Relationship Preferences
Building upon Gasiorowska and Zaleskiewicz's (2021, 2023), we explored how a control threat and attachment style influence social relationship preferences. This experiment aimed to investigate how experiencing a control threat affects individuals with secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment patterns when they can choose between seeking assistance from the market, asking a close person for help, or coping with the situation alone. Participants wi…
Mental imagery shapes emotions in people's decisions related to risk taking
This research investigates the specific effects of mental imagery on people's emotional responses and risk-taking decisions. We present findings across four studies, including three experiments, that highlight emotions as a mediator between the valence of mental images related to risk and subsequent risk-taking propensity. Our research identifies two key factors that moderate this relationship: the category of cognitive process (analytical thinki…
Warmth and Competence in Human-AI Agent Interactions
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly integrate into daily life, understanding how people perceive AI agents in trust-related interactions is critical for fostering effective human-AI collaboration. Drawing on social cognition theory, this research examines the fundamental dimensions of warmth and competence in shaping impressions and trust towards AI agents compared to humans. Across two studies using trust-related vignettes,…
Trust under watch
Trust and control are often portrayed as opposing forces in a hydraulic relationship. Across six preregistered experiments (total N = 4086) conducted in Australia, South Africa, the UK, and the US, we demonstrate that this relationship is context-dependent rather than universal. We examined how verification monitoring—a subtle form of control—affects trust in communal sharing (CS) versus market pricing (MP) relationships. Participants found monit…
Psychology (18 obras) · Social Psychology (17 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 obras) · Anxiety (4 obras) · Cognition (4 obras) · Cognitive psychology (3 obras)